Amal Clooney

 Amal Clooney (nee Alamuddin; Arabic: "'ml' lm Ldyn born on 3 February 1978)is an Lebanese as well as a British barrister. Maria Ressa, a Filipino journalist and American activist; former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed; Julian Assange (the creator of WikiLeaks); Yulia Tymoshenko the former prime minister of Ukraine; Mohamed Fahmy, an Egyptian-born Canadian journalist as well as Nadia Murad, an Iraqi activist. She was born in Beirut (Lebanon) as Alamuddin Clooney. Her initial name comes of the form'ml' in Arabic, meaning "hope".Her family moved out of Lebanon when she was just two years old, during the Lebanese Civil War, and relocated to Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.Her father Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze from the Alam al-Didynasty village in Baakline located in the Chouf District, received his MBA degree from the American University of Beirut. He returned to Lebanon in 1991 after the end of the civil warHer mother, Baria (nee Miknass), is Palestinian-Jordanian from a family of Sunni Muslims in Tripoli in Northern Lebanon, and was a political journalist and foreign editor of the Saudi-run newspaper al-